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$2,500 Settlement for Jail’s Failure to Treat Broken Hand

Loaded on Sept. 15, 2009

Filed under: Skeletal Injury, Failure to Treat, Conditions of Confinement, Jail Specific. Location: Washington.

Washington State’s King County Jail has paid Edward D. Bland $2,500 to settle a claim that the Jail failed to treat his broken right hand. Upon booking on March 9, 2004, a jail nurse examined Bland’s hand, which was as large as a grapefruit from swelling, and declared he was ...

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